pentachlorophenol

How will I know if pentachlorophenol is in my drinking water?

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How will pentachlorophenol be removed from my drinking water?

At the time, this was the largest spill of pentachlorophenol in United States history.

Zinc has showed much higher reactivity toward pentachlorophenol than iron.

How does pentachlorophenol get into my drinking water?

It was withdrawn after people fell ill or died, apparently from one its active ingredients, pentachlorophenol.

The greatest use of pentachlorophenol is as a wood preservative (fungicide).

The major source of pentachlorophenol in drinking water is discharge from wood-preserving factories.

EPA regulates pentachlorophenol in drinking water to protect public health.

Many are treated with creosote, mercury compounds or pentachlorophenol.

Both hypochlorite and pentachlorophenol have reduced effectiveness at pH values greater than 8.

All the timber members were glue-laminated and pressure treated with preservative pentachlorophenol in oil.

This health effects language is not intended to catalog all possible health effects for pentachlorophenol.

During its operation in the treatment of the wood, hazardous chemicals (including oil, dioxins, and pentachlorophenol) were created as waste products.

Idaho Pole treated wood products with creosote and pentachlorophenol on the site between 1945 and 1997.

To test the extent to which showers give off noxious materials, the water used will be pure except for a single contaminant, such as pentachlorophenol.

But the logs, telephone poles in the making, were dripping chemical preservatives, first creosote, then pentachlorophenol.

What are pentachlorophenol's health effects?

What are EPA's drinking water regulations for pentachlorophenol?

Rather, it is intended to inform consumers of some of the possible health effects associated with pentachlorophenol in drinking water when the rule was finalized.

These include pentachlorophenol and creosote.

What is pentachlorophenol?

Uses for pentachlorophenol.